Husband-and-wife R&B duo come to LBC

5:03 PM,
Nov. 8, 2012

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In Lafayette, Roy Melton said, there's a lot of music. There's the jazz you see at restaurants and the rap you hear in clubs and bands at the Knickerbocker.

But none of it is the music he loves most: R&B. Melton wanted to change that.

African Americans, he said, have a strong tie with music in culture, and he thought there could be more of that around town. He loves R&B, as well as dance hall and reggae, but those genres are not as popular here. When he heard of ISH's performance at a sorority event at Purdue, he knew he wanted to bring the husband- and-wife duo back to town. ...